Friday, January 12, 2007

Pattern Finder: Open Text: Adjusting to the New Order

Timely enterprise content management reality check from my Burton Group colleague Guy Creese -- see the full post for more on OpenText's recent IT analyst day.

Open Text is absolutely right: SharePoint has changed the ECM market. It won't happen overnight -- this year will be a year of mental adjustment, as enterprises start to realize just what SharePoint 2007 offers. Many MOSS/WSS 2007 implementations won't take place in 2007, but rather next year and beyond. Nevertheless, the ECM market will start moving away from content management application silos and migrating towards an infrastructure approach. To its credit, Open Text understands the new order.